Byron Bay Writers Festival 2012 Program

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Welcome to the sixteenth program of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. You will find nestled within these pages the complete range of marquee sessions, workshops, special feature events and book launches that together form our celebration of reading, writing and ideas. The program is deliberately eclectic, a reflection of the diversity of communities that call the Northern Rivers home.

We welcome writers from Karachi to Washington, along with writers from across Australia and around the corner to our much loved festival. For some writers this is their first time visiting our neighbourhood; for others, we welcome their return so that we can discover what new literary gems they have published since we last had the pleasure of hosting them.

By immersing yourself in this program you will discover the richness of our literary culture and have the opportunity to plan your personal itinerary from the delights on offer.

Naturally, you will be excited to hear from your favourite

Credits Management Committee: Chairperson Chris Hanley Vice chairperson Lynda Dean Secretary Russell Eldridge Treasurer Cheryl Bourne Members Jesse Blackadder, Fay Burstin, Marele Day, Robert Hanson, Brenda Shero

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At the heart of this Festival is good conversation. It begins when you pore over this program with a friend and culminates in early August when we all get together with the writers profiled in these pages. I encourage you to join in the conversation, re-affirm old connections and make surprising new ones. On behalf of the whole festival team I invite you into our special world of discussing reading, writing and ideas.

Staff: Festival director Jonathan Parsons Operations manager Sarah Ma Centre manager Siboney Duff Events manager Simon Pyle Sponsorship manager Erin Gascoine Publicist Rachel Bending Volunteers & schools coordinator Virginia Clarke Travel & ticketing coordinator Cherrie Sheldrick Events & administration assistant Melissa Scott Site assistant Tracy Dreelin Special thanks to all our wonderful volunteers!

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author and to delve into the issues and subjects that are closest to your heart. I urge you to also stretch yourself and try something unexpected for it is those moments, when we venture into the unknown, that are often the most memorable. Should your interest be piqued by our special feature events and workshops, please be sure not to leave booking too late as all of these sessions have limited capacity.

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9.00am – 10.00am Collectables: The bounty of our desires

9.15am – 10.15am Raw Nerves: Should some topics be off-limits

9.30am – 10.30am Curdled Milk: Schoolyard memories

Gay Bilson, Adrian Franklin, Nicole Moore Chair: Jill Eddington

Paul Carter, Tony Cavanaugh, Jim Hearn Chair: Simon Marnie Sponsored by Zentveld’s Roastery

Jon Doust, Ned Manning, John Marsden Chair: Mary Delahunty

10.15am – 11.15am Bashed, sued, celebrated, revered

10.30am – 11.30am Save ten lives with a paper clip

10.45am – 11.45am Bad Mothers’ Club

Bob Brown in conversation with Kerry O’Brien Sponsored by Southern Cross University

Morris Gleitzman in conversation

Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin Chair: Gideon Haigh

11.30am – 12.30pm Is the big country big enough?

11.45am – 12.45pm Journalism, love, and exploding mangoes

12.00pm – 1.15pm Bringing history to life

Ian Lowe, George Megalogenis Chair: Richard Fidler Sponsored by Ad Agency

Mohammed Hanif in conversation with Chris Hanley Sponsored by Macquarie Bank

Michelle Aung Thin, Jane Caro, Sulari Gentil, Rohan Wilson Chair: Edna Carew Sponsored by Inside History

12.45pm – 2.00pm Our Literary Heritage: What role do the classics play in our culture?

1.00pm – 2.00pm Wild Things: Remembering Maurice Sendak

Shane Maloney, Wayne Macauley, John Tranter, Susan Wyndham Chair: Jane Gleeson-White

Isobelle Carmody, Morris Gleitzman, John Marsden Chair: Ashley Hay Sponsored by Booked Out Agency

2.15pm – 3.15pm Sweeping

2.15pm – 3.15pm Small town boy, literary icon

2.45pm – 3.45pm Is he out of his mind?

Elliot Perlman in conversation with Mary Delahunty

Andrea Hirata in conversation with Shamini Flint

Paul Carter in conversation with Rhoda Roberts Sponsored by Writing WA

3.30pm –4.30pm Female desire

3.30pm – 4.30pm The war on whingeing

4.00pm – 5.00pm Tamil Tigress

Bella Elwood-Clayton, Susan Johnson Chair: Caroline Baum

George Megalogenis in conversation with Petria Wallace

Niromi de Soyza in conversation with Sally Neighbour

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ABC3 Marquee 9.30am – 10.30am Breakthroughs: How new words and languages fuel innovation

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8.30am – 11.00am ABC North Coast on-site broadcast

Robyn Arianrhod, Peter Doherty, Jane GleesonWhite Chair: Ashley Hay

10.45am – 11.45pm Straight to the Point: The craft of short stories Nick Earls, Wayne Macauley, plus the Heading North winner Participating Chair: Arnold Zable

12.00pm – 1.00pm The future of reading

12.00pm – 1.00pm The rhythms of dramatic language

James Cowan, Andy Griffiths, Rhoda Roberts, Vikki Wakefield Chair: Meg Vann

A rehearsed reading of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues Directed by Susan Melhuish with action from the Fourth Wall Theatre Company Sponsored by Currency Press

1.15pm – 2.45pm Wanderlust

1.15pm – 2.15pm Writers’ Groups: Comrades or competitors?

John Bailey, Mike Ladd, Ailsa Piper, Tony Taylor Chair: Hannie Rayson

Sarah Armstrong, Jessie Cole, Lisa Walker Chair: Jesse Blackadder

3.00pm – 4.00pm Deadly Swan

2.30pm – 3.30pm Retro

Michael O’Loughlin in conversation with Mick O’Regan

Adrian Franklin in conversation with Bernie Hobbs

3.00pm – 4.00pm Launch David Lovejoy Heresy – The life of Pelagius Launched by Victor Marsh

4.15pm – 5.15pm Extreme Journeys Ailsa Piper, Anna Rose, Jessica Watson Chair: Jill Eddington

3.45pm – 4.45pm Pioneering Australia: Explorers and thugs John Bailey, Rohan Wilson Chair: Edna Carew

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9.00am – 10.00am

9.15am – 10.15am

The stupid country

Truth in Politics: Towards a fair society

Jane Caro, Ned Manning Participating Chair: Mary Delahunty

Geoff Gallop in conversation with Petria Wallace Sponsored by Writing WA

10.15am – 11.15am

Classic crime fiction and its new protagonists Sulari Gentil, Stuart Littlemore, Shane Maloney, Kel Robertson, Chair: Chris Hanley Sponsored by First National Byron Bay

11.30am – 12.30pm How the merchants of Florence and Venice changed the world Jane Gleeson-White, Gideon Haigh Chair: John M Green Sponsored By Rochdale Accounting and Financial Services

12.45pm – 1.45pm

What is Australia for?

Peter Doherty, Michael Kirby, Julianne Schultz Chair: Antony Funnell Sponsored by Griffith REVIEW

Red Marquee 9.00am – 10.30am Surviving Sophie Cunningham, Niromi de Soyza, Denise Leith, Sally Neighbour Chair: Julianne Schultz

10.30am – 11.30am View from the bench

10.45am – 11.45am Old Songs, New Worlds

Michael Kirby with Daryl Dellora Chair: Mick O’Regan Sponsored by the Byron at Byron Resort & Spa.

James Cowan, Sue Woolfe Chair: Rhoda Roberts

11.45am – 12.45pm True lies: Writing memoir

12.00pm – 1.15pm Public Grilling: The art of the interview

Paul Carter, Ned Manning, Jessica Watson Chair: Alan Close

1.00pm – 2.00pm “Somewhere between Steiner and the Simpsons” John Marsden in conversation with Mick O’Regan

Monica Attard, Fran Kelly, Sally Neighbour, Chris Uhlmann Chair: Edna Carew

1.30pm – 2.30pm Reaching the World: Writing that crosses cultures for adults and children Sarah Brennan, Xu Xi Chair: Jane Camens

2.00pm – 3.00pm Resilience in the US and India

2.15pm – 3.45pm The Sex Lives of Australians

2.45pm-4.00pm Writing Country

Katherine Boo in conversation with Fran Kelly Sponsored by Beach Suites

Frank Bongiorno, Michael Kirby, Nicole Moore, Bernard Salt, Chair: Mick O’Regan

Sophie Cunningham, Alex Miller, Tony Taylor, Sue Woolfe Chair: Venero Armanno

3.15pm – 4.00pm Thea Astley Lecture

4.00pm – 5.15pm The “F” Word: Feminism in 2012

Gail Jones

Jane Caro, Bella Elwood-Clayton, Susan Johnson, Michaela McGuire Chair: Bernadette Young Sponsored by Allen and Unwin

4.15pm-5.15pm Canberra, the funniest city in Australia

4.15pm – 5.15pm Giving up the Day Job: Lawyers turned writers Shamini Flint, Sulari Gentil, Elliot Perlman Chair: John M Green Sponsored by Holding Redlich

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Blue Marquee 9.15am – 9.45am Meet Arnold Zable 30 minutes of readings and musings from Arnold Zable

9.30am – 10.30am Oceans

10.00am – 11.00am Pitch Perfect

Tim Baker, Jessica Watson Chair: Gideon Haigh

MC Shamus Sillar with Siboney Duff Hopeful authors pitch live to a panel of publishers Sponsored by Harlequin

10.45am – 12.15pm Women of Letters: Performance

11.15am – 12.15pm Burma, then and now

Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire

Michellle Aung Thin speaks to Janie ConwayHerron

12.30pm – 1.30pm Real food

12.30pm – 1.30pm The Gods of Wheat Street: Keeping the family together in Casino

Gay Bilson, Mungo MacCallum, Charlotte Wood Chair: Caroline Baum

1.45pm – 2.45pm Making language sing John Tranter and Mark Tredinnick Chair: Mike Ladd

3.00pm – 4.00pm The secret life of birds Janine Burke, Peter Doherty, Carrie Tiffany Chair: Ashley Hay

Jon Bell, Deb Cox, Lois Randall Chair: Jill Moonie Sponsored by Screenworks

1.45pm – 2.45pm We are Family: Uncomfortable truths Kirsten Tranter, Kari Gislason, Amanda Webster Chair: Meg Vann

3.00pm – 4.00pm Unexpected crime in unexpected places Martin Chatterton, Maggie Groff, Kel Robertson Chair: Kate Veitch

4.15pm – 5.15pm Wireless Women: Writing in cyberspace

4.15pm – 5.15pm Writers’ Residences: Alaska, Hong Kong, Varuna

Haylee Kerans, Viginia Murdoch, Marieke Hardy Chair: Jeanti St Clair Sponsored by D Publishing

Jessie Cole, Leanne Hall, Xu Xi Participating Chair: Jesse Blackadder

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9.15am – 10.30am Righting the world

9.15am-10.15am The fine craft of the novelist

Katherine Boo, Niromi De Soyza, Andrea Hirata, Ian Lowe Chair: Russell Eldridge Sponsored by Robert Oatley Vineyards

Gail Jones in conversation with Charlotte Wood

10.45am – 12.00pm Speaking Freely: The impact of censorship

10.30am – 11.30am Stellar Women: Recognising our female writers

10.45am – 11.45am Digital Big Bang: expanding horizons for the work of writers

Mohammed Hanif, Denise Leith, Nicole Moore Chair: Julianne Schultz Sponsored by The Byron Shire Echo

Sophie Cunningham, Susan Johnson, Kirsten Tranter Chair: Meg Vann

Marc Fennell, Antony Funnell, Stephen Sewell Chair: Simon Groth Sponsored by Echonetdaily

12.15pm – 1.15pm Lust for Life (and Art)

11.45am – 12.45pm Rabelaisian adventures in post colonial India

12.00pm – 1.15pm Keeping the pages turning

Alex Miller in conversation with Susan Wyndham

Robyn Arianrhod, Venero Armanno, Peter Doherty Chair: Ashley Hay Sponsored by Byron Bay Accom

Kiran Nagarkar in conversation with Gideon Haigh

1.30pm – 2.30pm It’s not easy being good

1.00pm – 2.15pm Small world

Ailsa Piper, Hannie Rayson, Charlotte Wood Chair: Caroline Baum

Melissa Lucashenko, Anna Rose, Kate Veitch, Arnold Zable Chair: Julianne Schultz

2.45pm – 3.45pm Sapphires and Other Jewels: What makes a great film adaptation?

2.30pm – 3.45pm Going to the dark side

Andrew Knight, Elliot Perlman, Keith Thompson Chair: Roger Simpson Sponsored by Australian Writers’ Guild

9.30am – 10.30am Slow Simmer: nurturing ideas in today’s fast-paced world

Denise Leith, Tony Cavanagh, Stephen Sewell Chair: Ashley Hay

Tony Birch, Nick Earls, Sulari Gentil, Stuart Littlemore Chair: Russell Eldridge Sponsored by Frontline Copy Centre

1.30pm – 2.30pm Uncomfortable tales from tears to laughter Jon Doust in conversation with Fay Burstin

2.45pm – 3.45pm Stories that take us home. Ideas of place and family in Sicily, Iceland and rural Australia Venero Armanno, Kari Gislason, Carrie Tiffany Chair: Mary Delahunty

4.00pm – 5.00pm What gives you hope for the future?

4.00pm – 5.00pm Resuscitating your child’s guinea pig and other domestic skills

Marc Fennell, Shamini Flint, Ian Lowe, Hannie Rayson Chair: Bernie Hobbs

Jane Caro, Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin Chair: Bernadette Young

4.00pm – 5.00pm Australian Biographies: how people from our past shape our future John Bailey, Tom Keneally, Brenda Niall Chair: Edna Carew

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ABC3 Marquee All youth sessions are sponsored by ABC3

9.15am – 9.30am Intro by ABC3 presenters Amberley & Kayne 9.30am – 10.00am MEET Sarah Brennan 10.15 – 10.45am MEET Leigh Hobbs 11.00am – 11.30am MEET Shamini Flint 11.45am – 12.15pm MEET Andy Griffiths 12.30pm – 1.00pm MEET Morris Gleitzman 1.15pm – 1.45pm MEET Isobelle Carmody 2.00pm – 2.30pm MEET Leanne Hall 2.45pm – 3.15pm MEET John Marsden 3.30pm-4.00pm MEET Nick Earls

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9.30am – 10.30am Sinning Across Spain in performance Ailsa Piper performs a monologue about the walk and her verse guides, inspired by the script she wrote for ABC Radio’s Poetic Program

10.45am – 11.45am Something in the Water: Byron’s debut authors Jessie Cole, Shamus Sillar, Lisa Walker, Amanda Webster Chair: Jesse Blackadder

12.00pm – 1.00pm Cooking your way to Salvation Jim Hearn and Wayne Macauley Chair: Michaela McGuire

1.15pm – 2.00pm I’m so over books!

Movie advice from Marc Fennell

2.15pm – 3.15pm Nests Gay Bilson, Janine Burke, Mark Tredinnick Chair: Jill Eddington

3.30pm – 4.00pm Meet Xu Xi 30 minutes of readings and musings with Xu Xi

4.15pm – 5.00pm A celebration of Dangerously Poetic’s 10th anniversary

3.00 – 4.00pm Launch Ed Chatterton launches two books Mortal Combat A Dark Place to Die 4.00pm – 5.00pm Launch Jane Meredith Journey to the Dark Goddess

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Feature Events FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 8.00pm

SATURDAY 4 AUGUST 8.00pm

SATURDAY 4 AUGUST 7pm-9.30pm

Community Centre Theatre, Jonson St, Byron Bay Cost: $30

Community Centre Theatre, Jonson St, Byron Bay Cost: $30

Dendy Byron Bay Cinemas, Jonson St. Cost: $25, or $20 for NRWC and Club Dendy members, and festival pass holders.

Stand Up Comedy

Australia’s political future?

The Sapphires

Jon Doust, Mandy Nolan, Fiona O’Loughlin MC: Shamini Flint

Geoff Gallop, Mungo MacCallum, George Megalogenis Chair: Fran Kelly

Directed by Wayne Blair

Three mums with a dozen kids between them, and one bloke who specialises in playing deros and idiots in TV ads, will keep the laughs coming on this night of stand-up comedians who’ve turned into authors. Jon Doust, Mandy Nolan, and Fiona O’Loughlin are all masters of the laugh. The MC is lawyer-turned-author Shamini Flint – who should be a stand up comedian.

ABC Radio National’s voice of breakfast, Fran Kelly, will chair this panel discussion on Australia’s political future with academic and retired Premier of WA Geoff Gallup, senior journalist and political commentator with The Australian George Megalogenis, political editor of The Australian Financial Review Laura Tingle, and long-time political journalist and author Mungo MacCallum.

Produced by Rosemary Blight and Kylee Du Fresne Screenplay by Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell 1968 was the year the planet went haywire. All around the globe, there were riots and revolution in the streets. There were hard drugs, soft drugs, free love and psychedelic music. There was the shock of Martin Luther King’s and Bobby Kennedy’s assassinations.

And dominating every other news story… There was Vietnam.

Jon Doust

Fiona O’Loughlin

Geoff Gallop

For four gorgeous young women from a remote Aboriginal mission, 1968 was the year that changed their lives forever. Sisters Gail, Julie and Cynthia, together with their cousin Kay, are discovered

by Dave, a down-on-his-luck Irish musician with attitude, a taste for Irish Whiskey, and an ear for Soul Music. Dave steers the girls away from their Country & Western origins then flies them to the war-zones of South Vietnam, where they sing Soul Classics for the American Marines. On tour in the Mekong Delta, the girls sing up a storm, dodge bullets… and fall in love.

Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires is a triumphant celebration of youth, courage, love, family and Soul Music.

The film will be introduced by Rhoda Roberts and screenwriter Keith Thompson. Following the film will be a Q&A with Keith Thompson, hosted by Rhoda Roberts.

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Food Events FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 12.00pm – 3.00pm

FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 7.30pm – 10.30pm

SATURDAY 4 AUGUST 7.30pm – 10.30pm

Italian At The Pacific, Beach Hotel Byron Bay Cost: $110

North Byron Events Cost: $115

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Words that Matter: The daily news and investigative reporting Literary Dinner

Australian literary treasures Literary Dinner

Lawyers and murderers: sharp legal mind turns to crime fiction Literary Lunch Stuart Littlemore in conversation Stuart Littlemore is one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, practising at the bar across Australia. In his legal work he specialises in media law, criminal law and administrative law.

Stuart has maintained a parallel career in the media.

He is probably best known for his writing and presentation of the ABC TV program Media Watch (1989 – 1998).

Stuart is also well known as a human rights activist and a member of the Executive Council of the International Commission of Jurists.

In 2011 he published his first work of fiction, Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice and introduced to crime fiction a brilliant new character, Harry Curry. The next instalment in this series, Harry Curry: The Murder Book, will be published just in time for the festival.

Fran Kelly and Sally Neighbour in conversation with Mick O’Regan Respected radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent Fran Kelly hosts ABC Radio National’s agenda-setting Breakfast program and joins journalist colleague Sally Neighbour. Sally is an award winning investigative journalist, author and leading Australian commentator on terrorism, Islamic extremism and security related matters. She is best known for her work with Australia’s premier investigative public affairs program, ABC TV’s 4 Corners.

Gail Jones and Charlotte Wood in conversation Gail Jones has won numerous literary awards for her novels; she is also the author of two collections of short stories. Her most recent novel is the exquisite Five Bells, which vividly describes four lives that chime and resonate over a single day in Sydney. Charlotte Wood is first and foremost an author of fiction, her most recent book Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food is about the emotional and symbolic meaning of cooking for people you love.

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Workshops

Laurel Cohn

MONDAY 30 JULY 10am – 4pm SCU Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 1W

Laurel Cohn: The art of revision Successful authors often note that the art of a good book lies in the revision process. Getting your story down (whether fiction or non-fiction) is a great achievement, but the real work begins with rewriting. And rewriting.

And more rewriting.

In this workshop, designed specifically for writers with a completed draft of a book-length work, editor Laurel Cohn explores the three key aspects to the art of revision: stepping out of writer mode and into revision mode; identifying the heart of the narrative; and shaping the text to honour the story. Each of these aspects requires a different perspective and particular tools and strategies.

9.30am – 12.30pm SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 2W

Tim Baker: Surf Writing Best-selling author Tim Baker has been writing about surfing for 25 years. He believes surfing makes ideal subject matter for story-telling because it fits the template of “the hero’s journey,” the classic three-act narrative arc that has defined our most enduring stories for millennia.

Learn the secrets of story-telling, simple free writing exercises, and key techniques to help you record your most precious surfing memories as dynamic, compelling tales.

Tim Baker

1.30pm – 4.30pm SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 3W

John Bailey: The Picky Burglar: Shame, hate and truth in biography Do you want the truth – or do you want to be read? Is there a message for the present times, or no message?

Are you writing history, or are you writing inspiration? Who cares about your subject? Do you care? Why care? Do you gleefully highlight the nasty bits or leave them out? What will the rellos think?

This workshop is planned to be very interactive. Participants are asked to challenge their methods, their approach to biography, and how they do their research. It will be a sharing of ideas, disappointments and challenges.

TUESDAY 31 JULY 9.30am – 12.30pm SCU Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 4W

Edna Carew: The art of research and interview Who has not walked out of an interview wondering if and how it could have been better handled? It can happen to the best. Learn how to ensure top results from interviews and research from a professional who, in the course of her work on profiles, biographies and company histories, has interviewed countless women and men from various walks of life.

Edna Carew, author of more than twenty books, has through her journalism and writing covered

More detailed information about these workshops is available on the Festival website

Gay Bilson

John Bailey

topics ranging from personal relationships and sexual health to finance, economics, politics, business and travel. Her work has led her to interview prime ministers, senior politicians and high-level bureaucrats, company executives, doctors and health professionals, media moguls, nuns, truck drivers, funeral directors and artists. In her workshop she will share how best to prepare for an interview and organise research as well as anecdotes revealing pitfalls in the process.

Melissa Lucashenko

be addressing? What do you want to address? What words best serve your purpose?

If food is a shared material, economic and cultural concern for all people, then we need food journalism to include serious and informed writing about food security, food waste, food pricing, food distribution, food and health, and, especially, agriculture and all that agriculture entails – climate, soil, labour, the uses to which land is put.

10am – 4pm

We will read and critique two essays (sent to you before the workshop) and attempt a short piece of our own.

SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 6W

1.30pm – 4.30pm

Mandy Nolan: Something funny about writing Join Mandy Nolan in a full day workshop where she focuses on bringing humour into your writing.

“It’s about finding your authentic voice, committing to comic ideas as a way of perpetuating or continuing the theme, rather than clichéd sensationalism”. Good comedy writing should be moving, original and of course very, very funny! This is a perfect workshop for anyone keen to start a regular blog, or for writers wanting to invest more humour in their work!

1.30pm – 4.30pm SCU Room, Byron Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 5W

Gay Bilson: What we talk about when we talk about food What is it we are addressing when we write about food? What should we

Veranda Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 7W

Melissa Lucashenko: Writing the Aboriginal world Aboriginal themes and characters are of increasing interest to Australian writers and to a world audience, but constructing stories and ideas which reflect modern Aboriginal realities and are not simply rehashes of old racist tropes is a complex process.

In this half day workshop Melissa Lucashenko, an award-winning Bundjalung novelist and essayist, examines ways that non-Aboriginal writers can successfully enter this difficult terrain. Topics covered include: What is an Aboriginal anyway? Can outsiders write the Aboriginal voice? What is and isn’t negotiable in Aboriginal storytelling?

And most of all, how to create authentic and convincing Aboriginal people on the page.

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Workshops WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST 10am – 4pm SCU Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 8W

Kim Falconer: Write, sell and promote your genre fiction Awaken the writer in you! Join Kim Falconer for an intensive full day workshop on the dynamics of writing genre fiction including manuscript re a d i n e s s a n d p re s e n ta t i o n , publication options, working with an editor and the all important leap into the world of social media.

If you are an emerging writer who loves to read and write genre fiction, from fantasy, romance, adventure, horror, science fiction, historical, erotica to dystopia, YA to adult, and want to hone your skills and sell your work, this workshop is for you.

Kim Falconer is a bestselling speculative fiction author with six novels out through HarperCollins Voyager Worldwide. She lives and writes in Byron Bay, runs an astrology forum, teaches Law of Attraction and is working on a third series set in a whole new world.

10am – 4pm SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 9W

Anneli Knight: Freelance journalism In this one-day workshop you will learn how to approach a feature story from the spark of an idea until it spools from your printer.

The day will be divided in to three parts and topics covered will include:

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Part I: Before you start writing Coming up with ideas; Finding and fine-tuning the angle; Knowing your audience; Who will you interview and how will you find them?; Interview techniques and tips; Mapping it out before you start writing.

Part II: Writing a feature story Different styles of feature articles; Structure: know the rules so you can learn to break them; Flow: connecting ideas and voices in your story; Editing your own work; Proof-reading: the importance of producing clean copy.

Part III: Getting published How to make a pitch; How to stand out from the crowd You will also learn some tips for how to survive as a freelance journalist and make it work as your full-time gig.

10am – 4pm Veranda Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 10W

James Cowan: The Field Book: A journey on the page One of the most important tools of a writer, whether of poetry, fiction or non-fiction, is the field book. It represents the palette on which ideas, visual impressions, and meditations are mixed together to become the basis for new literary images and thoughts. There are valuable techniques that can be learnt in order to use a field book as a vehicle for creative endeavour.

International author James Cowan will give some helpful tips on how to go about using a field book. During the course of his field trips in various parts of the world gathering material for his work, he has made the field book central to his literary practice.

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Participants are asked to bring along a notebook to this workshop.

Themes that will be explored are: Nature and landscape; Cultural encounter and experience; Streetscapes; Scraps and quotes.

Participants will be encouraged to begin the process of using their field book through demonstration during the course of the workshop.

Kim Falconer

THURSDAY 2 AUGUST 9.30am – 12.30pm SCU Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 15W

Shane Maloney: Cooking Up a Plot: Crime writing What are the essential ingredients of a page-turning murder mystery?

Join award-winning author Shane Maloney for a fast, furious, hands-on guide to cooking up a plot. Roll up your literary shirt-sleeves and join the fray as he shares his tips on such essential topics as setting, character and pace. Bring a sharp pencil, an open mind and a sense of humour.

This half day intensive workshop will begin with a discussion of common writing problems and how to overcome them, based on Shane’s own experience. The group will then work with Shane to devise a setting and cast of characters for a classic murder mystery.

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Finally participants will devise a storyline utilising these “ingredients”.

Along the way, the class will discuss characterisation, motive, dialogue, narrative voice and other essentials that can be applied to the participants’ own writing projects. The workshop will conclude with a writing exercise.

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Includes entry to the North Byron Events (formerly North Beach) Festival site from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 August. Excludes workshops and separately ticketed events. No reserved seating.

For 6–16-year-olds only. Includes entry to designated ABC3 MARQUEE only on Sunday 5 August from 9.00am to 4.00pm. No reserved seating.

Each Youth Pass accommodates one accompanying adult allowing access to ABC3 MARQUEE ONLY.

Terms and Conditions of Ticket Sales and Entry The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (Festival) is organised and managed by the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre (ABN 94 163 348 616) (Centre).

1 The Centre may amend the program of the Festival at any time without notice.

2 Once purchased, tickets will not be refunded or exchanged, and lost or stolen tickets will not be replaced.

3 If, due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Centre, such as an act of God (including adverse weather conditions), an act of terrorism, or other security issue, it is necessary to cancel some or all of the Festival program, the Centre may do so and, unfortunately, no refund will be given.

4 Participation in the Festival and entry to the Festival site is at your own risk.

Festival site and you must wear your wristband throughout the period you are at the Festival site.

5 No commercial activity may be conducted, and no written material or goods of any description handed out or otherwise distributed, at the Festival site without the express permission of the Centre.

9 You must bring proof of eligibility for concession tickets to the Festival site and the Centre may refuse entry if this is not provided upon request.

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10 The Centre reserves the right to examine and search all bags (including handbags), parcels and packages which are brought, or proposed to be brought, onto the Festival site, and to effect such other security measures as are reasonably necessary to protect the Festival site.

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Workshops Thursday Workshops continued from page 14 THURSDAY 2 AUGUST 9.30am – 12.30pm SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 13W

Ailsa Piper: I, I, I, Me, Me, Me Oh, enough about me. What do YOU think of me? Ailsa Piper’s workshop will focus on writing in the first person. It was the biggest challenge she faced in writing Sinning Across Spain, but was just as pressing when she wrote the characters in her play Small Mercies.

How to locate that authentic voice, and not censor it? How to find the “I” of a character, even when the character is…I? Whether as writer, director, workshop-leader or actor, Ailsa has spent a lifetime dealing with the twin challenges of authenticity and selfcriticism. And she has many practical techniques at her fingertips to help others find a pain-free way through the woods of locating character.

Come and explore. Pens, lots of paper, soft clothing and a sense of humour are all vital.

10am – 4pm Veranda Room, Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay $100/$85* Code 11W

Mark Tredinnick: Throwing soft bombs A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s heart says to her mind, and her voice finds a body for. Each good poem is shapely god; keeping its own secrets, it tells us our own.

“Why write poems,” writes Gregory Orr,

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“If not because grief or joy/ Has seized you?” With Rumi and the mystics, Orr would add that each poem is not just a complex, oblique, emotional cry to the Beloved – a yearning for the rest of who, and where, you thought you were. Each poem is, somehow, the Beloved – returned and embodied, in all his or her manifold and maddening contradiction. A poem “should always replace a yearning,” writes Don Paterson. “A poem must take the shape of a woman, a man, a god, or a ghost, or else it is probably no poem at all.”

Form and voice, then, are a big deal in a poem. By forcing hard linguistic choices on a poet, line after line, poetic form frees language (forces it, perhaps) to do the other work we need it to do (beyond its functional duties in the market and the kitchen and the story): the work of recasting life’s exquisite spell, transfiguring pain, naming injustice, unseating banality, throwing soft bombs, making semantic jazz, hymning, that kind of thing.

1.30pm – 4.30pm SAE Institute, 373 Ewingsdale Rd, Byron Bay $60/$50* Code 12W

Meg Vann: The amplified author What does digital publishing mean for writers today?

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With the advent of new technologies and ideas, today we have a host of choices and opportunities for writers looking to connect with readers, and writers have a lot more options when it comes to driving their own careers.

From traditional publishing houses, to e-books, to social media, in today’s world there are as many paths to publication as there are writers.

Join Meg Vann, manager of The Australian Writers Marketplace , together with a published author to learn about digital publishing options for writers today, and what it means to be an Amplified Author.

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be looking at the steps one has to take in this process. As well, information will be provided on what each format looks like and what is expected in the professional environment.

Specifically we’ll be looking at and discussing the key ingredients for scriptwriting: the development of character; where to set your story; how to structure your story for the screen; and how to write dialogue.

The workshop will take into account all forms of narrative storytelling, in all genres.

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Biographies

More detailed biographies are available on the Festival website including session times

Robyn Arianrhod

Jesse Blackadder

Fay Burstin

Jesse Blackadder is fascinated by adventurous women and cold landscapes. Her novels include After the Party, The Raven’s Heart and Chasing the Light: A novel of Antarctica (forthcoming).

Journalist and former lawyer Fay Burstin currently curates and manages Splendour Forum, the live discussion program at Splendour In The Grass music and arts festival.

Robyn Arianrhod is a writer and mathematician (she is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University). Her latest book is Seduced by Logic.

Venero Armanno Dr Venero (Veny) Armanno is a well known Australian novelist, and works as a senior lecturer in creative writing at University of Queensland. Black Mountain is his latest book.

Sarah Armstrong Sarah Armstrong’s first novel Salt Rain was shortlisted for the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Dobbie Award.

Monica Attard Monica Attard spent 28 years at the ABC, working across radio and television.

She has five Walkley awards including Gold for excellence in journalism and an Order of Australia.

Michelle Aung Thin Michelle Aung Thin was born in Burma, grew up in Canada, and currently lives in Melbourne. The Monsoon Bride is her first novel.

John Bailey

Bustin’ Down The Door, and Surfari. He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines.

Caroline Baum Caroline Baum is a well known journalist and broadcaster. The founding editor of Good Reading, Caroline is a regular contributor to online and print media and a guest at writers’ festivals across Australia and overseas. She is the Editorial Director for Booktopia, Australia’s leading online bookseller.

Jon Bell Jon Bell comes from the Aboriginal nations Wiradjuri and Bundjalung. He has made two short films and created the upcoming series The Gods of Wheat Street.

Gay Bilson Gay Bilson was a restaurateur and cook, centrally as owner of Berowra Waters Inn (19771995). She is the author of Plenty: Digressions on Food (Penguin) and On Digestion (MUP).

Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno is the author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History, and is associate professor of history at the Australian National University.

Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer prize. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is her first book.

Sarah Brennan

Bob Brown has been a prominent environmentalist since the Franklin campaign and a Greens parliamentarian for 26 years. He is the author of several books, including one of poetry.

Janine Burke

Tim Baker Tim Baker is the bestselling author of Occy, High Surf,

Bob Brown

Edna Carew’s many books include bestsellers Fast Money, Language of Money, Paul Keating, Prime Minister and Westpac, the bank that broke the bank.

Alongside his career as a children’s author, Ed Chatterton’s debut crime novel, A Dark Place To Die (Random House) will be launched internationally in August.

Isobelle Carmody is Australia’s most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers.

Most recently, The Red Wind from The Kingdom of the Lost series was the winner of the 2011 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers.

Jane Caro wears many hats; including author, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator, speaker, broadcaster and award winning advertising writer. Just a Girl is her latest book.

Bob Brown

Janine Burke is an author, art historian and award-winning novelist. Her most recent book is Nest: The Art of Birds.

Ed Chatterton

Jane Caro

Sarah Brennan is the Australian-born, Hong Kongbased children’s author and publisher of the best-selling Chinese Calendar Tales and the popular Dirty Story series.

John Bailey’s latest book Into the Unknown is a biography of Ludwig Leichhardt. Other titles include The White Divers of Broome and Mr Stuart’s Track.

Edna Carew

Isobelle Carmody

Katherine Boo

Venero Armanno

Paul Carter Paul has lived, worked, gotten into trouble and been given a serious talking to in too many countries to list here. Smoking Monkeys, Drilling Rigs, Biodiesel Bikes and Other Stories combines Paul Carter’s three international bestselling books.

Tony Cavanaugh Tony Cavanaugh is an award winning writer and producer for films and television. His first novel Promise was published in April 2012.

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Laurel Cohn Laurel Cohn is an editor and mentor passionate about communication and the power of narrative to engage, inspire and challenge. Since the late 1980s she has been helping writers develop their stories and prepare their work for print and, more recently, online publication.

Alan Close Alan Close’s most recent book is Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love.

He was a columnist in Good Weekend magazine.

Jessie Xanthe Cole Jessie Cole’s work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, and the Big Issue.

This year sees the publication of her debut novel Darkness on the Edge of Town.

James Cowan James Cowan is author of 30 books, including novels, travel books, non-fiction, poetry and essays. His novel, A Mapmaker’s Dream, was awarded the ALS gold medal.

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Katherine Boo

Sarah Brennan

Deb Cox

Niromi de Soyza

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Niromi de Soyza

Peter C Doherty

Jill Eddington

Deb Cox is a story creator, writer, editor and creative producer. She developed a range of feature film and television projects, the latest being Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

Niromi de Soyza is a mother of two in Sydney’s North Shore. But at age 17, she fought in the Sri Lankan civil war as a militant Tamil Tigress.

Peter Doherty is a research biologist who is passionate about sustaining the health of humanity and the natural world we share with all life forms.

Jill Eddington is a consultant in both the arts and education sectors.

Mary Delahunty

Jon Doust

Author, founding CEO/National Director Writing Australia Ltd, former Government Arts/ Education/Planning Minister, award winning television journalist. Founder of Rosebank residential writers’ retreat.

Jon Doust lives in Western Australia. He has written two novels for children, and his first novel for adults, Boy on a Wire, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award in 2010.

Russell Eldridge is a retired newspaper editor. He now writes fiction and freelance articles, trains journalists and conducts corporate media training. He has worked in South Africa, Sydney and northern NSW.

Daryl Dellora

Nick Earls is the author of fifteen books. Two of his novels have become feature films and five have become stage plays. His newest book is Welcome to Normal.

Sophie Cunningham Sophie Cunningham has worked in publishing in Australia for more that twentyfive years and is the current Chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She is the author of three books.

Daryl Dellora is an awardwinning documentary filmmaker. Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life is his first book.

Nick Earls

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Bella EllwoodClayton Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton is a sexual anthropologist. She appears regularly on television and radio and is the author of Sex Drive: In Pursuit of Female Desire.

Kim Falconer Kim Falconer is a bestselling speculative fiction author with two series out through HarperCollins Voyager Worldwide. She lives and writes in Byron Bay.

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Biographies Marc Fennell

Sulari Gentill

John M Green

Marc Fennell is an awardwinning film critic, technology geek and media mischiefmaker who likes to pull high-brow culture down off its high horse and give it a solid spanking.

Sulari ‘s latest novel, Miles Off Course, is the third book in the Rowland Sinclair Series.

She is also author of The Hero Trilogy, a fantasy adventure series.

John’s ‘spectacular political thriller’, Born to Run, was launched by Bob Carr at Byron Bay Writers’ Festival last year.

His latest novel, The Trusted, will be released in November 2012.

Kári Gislason

Richard Fidler Richard Fidler is a well-known Australian republican and Australian ABC TV and radio presenter.

Shamini Flint Shamini Flint’s most recent crime novel is Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver. Her latest children’s books are Diary of a Soccer Star and Diary of a Cricket God.

Kári Gíslason teaches creative writing and literary studies at Queensland University of Technology. His bittersweet family memoir, The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), explores the meaning of home.

Adrian Franklin Marc Fennell Professor Adrian Franklin is a sociologist, TV presenter (ABC Collectors), radio commentator and columnist with interests in the arts, design and contemporary Jane Gleeson-White society and culture.

Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry, Antony Funnell Australian Classics and Classics. She has degrees in Antony Funnell is a Walkley literature and economics and award-winning broadcaster blogs at bookishgirl.com.au and the author of The Future and overland.org.au. and Related Nonsense (Harper Collins). He presents Future Tense on Radio National.

Morris Gleitzman

Geoff Gallop Professor Geoff Gallop was Premier of Western Australia 2001–2006. He is Director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney, and in high demand as a columnist and public speaker.

Morris Gleitzman’s bestselling children’s books explore serious and sometimes confronting subjects in humorous and unexpected ways. His titles include Too Small To Fail, Pizza Cake, Once, Then and Now, and are published in more than twenty countries.

Andy Griffiths Andy Griffiths is Australia’s most popular children’s writer.

He is the author of over 20 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays.

Maggie Groff Maggie Groff is the author of two non-fiction books, Mothers Behaving Badly and Hoax Cuisine. Her first novel Mad Men Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitter’s Institute is set in Byron Bay.

Simon Groth Simon is the manager of if:book Australia exploring digital futures for readers and writers. He lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Gideon Haigh Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport and business for more than twenty years. He wrote regularly for The Guardian during the 2006–07 Ashes series. He has written and edited more than twenty books.

Leanne Hall Leanne Hall lives in Melbourne and works as a children’s literature specialist at an independent bookstore. Her refreshingly original debut

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Mohammed Hanif Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film The Long Night has been shown at film festivals around the world.

A Case of Exploding Mangoes won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

Chris Hanley Chris Hanley is the founder and Chair of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. He is a business coach and speaker and a writer across a range of genres from short stories to business articles.

Chris is the Principal of Byron Bay’s leading real estate company, Byron Bay First National.

Marieke Hardy Marieke Hardy is a broadcaster, screenwriter, blogger, columnist, and author. She is a regular panelist on the ABC TV’s First Tuesday Book Club.

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Jim Hearn Jim wrote High Season: a memoir of heroin and hospitality, after quitting his job as head chef at Rae’s on Watego’s and enrolling in the writing program at SCU.

Andrea Hirata Andrea Hirata is one of Indonesia’s most popular and successful contemporary writers. His first novel, The Rainbow Troops, has sold in the millions and been adapted for film, television and musical theatre.

Bernie Hobbs Bernie Hobbs is an awardwinning science writer and broadcaster and was a regular judge on ABC TV’s The New Inventors.

Leigh Hobbs Leigh Hobbs is an artist, children’s author and illustrator.

His most recent book is Horrible Harriet’s Inheritance, published by Allen & Unwin in July 2012.

Susan Johnson Susan Johnson is the author of six novels, a memoir on motherhood, A Better Woman,

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and an essay, On Beauty. Her seventh novel is My Hundred Lovers: the autobiography of a body.

Gail Jones Gail Jones is the author of two books of short stories and five novels (most recently Five Bells) and Professor of Writing at UWS.

Fran Kelly Respected radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent, Fran Kelly hosts ABC Radio National’s agenda-setting Breakfast program.

Tom Keneally Tom Keneally’s novels include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Schindler’s List,

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and The People’s Train. His latest nonfiction book was The Australians: Origins to Eureka. He has won the Miles Franklin Award, the Booker Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize.

governing bodies and many national and international bodies including the World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS and the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee.

Haylee Kerans

Andrew Knight

Haylee Kerans is the Publishing Manager at Harlequin Enterprises Australia and is responsible for the Mills & Boon, Mira and Harlequin Teen imprints in Australia.

Andrew Knight has written and produced vast oceans of television and several films.

Shows include Rake, Jack Irish, Seachange, After the Deluge, Fast Forward, Spotswood and many, many more.

Michael Kirby When Michael Kirby retired from the High Court of Australia in February 2009, he was Australia’s longest serving judge. In addition to his judicial duties, he has served on three university

Anneli Knight Anneli Knight is a freelance journalist and writer. She is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers and online.

Denise Leith

Mike Ladd is a producer and presenter of ABC Radio National’s poetry program Poetica. He grew up in the Adelaide Hills and has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from the University of Adelaide. He has published six books of poetry.

Denise Leith Denise Leith is the author of the novel, What Remains and two nonfiction books, The Politics of Power and Bearing Witness. She has a PhD in international relations.

Steve Lewis Steve Lewis has been reporting politics in Canberra since 1992 and has survived the near collapse of the Fairfax

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Stuart Littlemore Stuart Littlemore QC is an Australian barrister and former journalist and television presenter. He is best known for his time as writer and host of the ABC’s Media Watch program, which he presented from its inception in 1989 to 1997.

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BYRON BAY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Biographies Melissa Lucashenko

Whelan series. He has been published in the UK, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Finland and the US.

Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed Aboriginal novelist and essayist who lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. She is currently working on her fifth novel, Mullumbimby, a modern love story set amidst a native title war in northern NSW.

Ned Manning Ned Manning is an actor, writer, dramaturg and teacher.

He has written plays for the Bell Shakespeare Company, and his works have been performed around Australia.

His book, Playground Duty, has just been released.

Wayne Macauley Wayne Macauley is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories. His latest novel is The Cook. He lives in Melbourne.

Mungo MacCallum Mungo MacCallum is a political journalist, broadcaster and commentator. The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely is his latest book on politics. His new book Eat My Words will be launched by Tom Keneally at this year’s Festival.

Shane Maloney

John Marsden John Marsden is Australia’s bestselling author for teenagers and a highly acclaimed picture book writer.

His titles include The Ellie Chronicles, Letters from the Inside, and Tomorrow, When the War Began.

Michaela McGuire Michaela McGuire is a writer, columnist and author. She also co-curates and hosts the Melbourne based literary salon Women of Letters.

Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists, author of the Murray

Ned Manning

John Marsden

George Megalogenis

Virginia Murdoch

Kerry O’Brien

George Megalogenis is a senior journalist and political commentator with The Australian. The Australian Moment is his latest book.

Virginia is a graphic designer and one of the founders of Booki.sh, an e-book sales and distribution platform for readers and independent booksellers.

Kerry O’Brien is the former editor and host of The 7.30 Report and Four Corners.

He is one of Australia’s most respected journalists, having been awarded six Walkley Awards during his career.

Alex Miller

Kiran Nagarkar

Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, The Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. Autumn Laing is his tenth novel.

Bilingual novelist, playwright, film, drama and social critic, and screenplay writer. Kiran lives in Bombay, India.

Sally Neighbour is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and leading Australian commentator on terrorism, Islamic extremism and security related issues.

Jill Moonie Jill Moonie is the General Manager of Northern Rivers Screenworks in northern NSW. She has previously worked in the screen industry as a producer, writer, director and consultant.

Brenda Niall Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of eleven books including seven acclaimed biographies.

Nicole Moore Nicole Moore is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books and teaches at UNSW Canberra.

George Megalogenis

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Mandy Nolan Mandy Nolan is a standup comedian, artist and writer.

Her wickedly funny book What I Would Do If I Were You was published in 2011.

Brenda Niall

Michael O’Loughlin Known to fans as ‘Mickey O’, Michael O’Loughlin is a legendary figure in AFL and one of the Sydney Swans’ favourite sons. Mickey O is the extraordinary story of a kid from the wrong side of the tracks.

Fiona O’Loughlin Fiona O’Loughlin is a wellknown standup comedian who has featured on TV shows such as Spicks and Specks, Rove Live and Good News Week.

Mick O’Regan Mick O’Regan is ABC Radio National’s new homepage editor. A broadcaster for more than two decades, Mick began his career in the community radio sector before producing documentaries for Radio National.

Kerry O’Brien

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Elliot Perlman

Lois Randall

Hannie Rayson

Elliot Perlman

Hannie Rayson

Elliot Perlman is the bestselling, internationally acclaimed author of Three Dollars, The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming, Seven Types of Ambiguity and The Street Sweeper.

Hannie Rayson is the author of fourteen plays. She is currently working on a commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, for a new play called Extinction.

Ailsa Piper

Rhoda Roberts

Ailsa Piper writes, directs, and performs. Co-winner of the Patrick White Playwright’s Award, Ailsa writes of walking, language, and everyday miracles in Sinning Across Spain.

A member of the Bundjalung nation, Widjabul and Gidabul clans, Rhoda is currently the Head of Indigenous Programming, Artistic Director of Message Sticks Festival for the Sydney Opera House and Festival Director and producer for the Boomerang Festival 2013 .

Lois Randall Lois Randall is Producer of The Gods of Wheat Street, Chair of Northern Rivers Screenworks and former Regional Arts Development Officer at Arts Northern Rivers.

Kel Robertson Kel Robertson is the author of three critically lauded crime novels featuring the Chinese-

Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen.

Anna Rose Anna Rose is an Australian writer, activist and environmentalist. She is co-founder and Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and is a former Environment Minister’s joint Young Environmentalist of the Year.

Bernard Salt Bernard Salt is a bestselling author of four books on popular demography. His latest book The Big Tilt considers how society might change as the baby boomers tilt from work towards retirement.

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Shamus Sillar

Julianne Schultz is the editor of Griffith REVIEW, she chairs the reference group for the National Cultural Policy and the Queensland Design Council, and is a member of the boards of the ABC and Grattan Institute.

Shamus grew up near Byron Bay, taught Classics in Brisbane and China, and is currently a magazine editor in Singapore. His first book is a travel memoir about Sicily.

Stephen Sewell

Jeanti St Clair is a journalist and media academic at Southern Cross University and has written extensively on the arts and film. She is ABC North Coast’s arts reviewer.

Stephen Sewell is a well known playwright (The Blind Giant is Dancing), screenwriter (The Boys), and now novelist (Babylon) and soon to be film director.

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Tony Taylor Former mountaineer and geologist Tony Taylor was born in 1928. A somewhat reluctant city-dweller now, he never has lost his love of wild places.

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Biographies Keith Thompson

Chris Uhlmann

Petria Wallace

Sue Woolfe

Keith Thompson is an eight-time (Australian Writers’ Guild) AWGIE Award winning screenwriter. He is currently Head of Creative at Goalpost Pictures, Australia.

Chris Uhlmann is one of Australia’s best known and most respected political broadcasters. He has earned a deserved reputation for his fearless pursuit of the nation’s politicians as political editor and co-host of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30.

Petria Wallace is a broadcast journalist. She has reported on national current affairs for the ABC’s flagship AM program, covered QLD politics for The 7.30 Report and is a former senior TV News reporter.

Sue Woolfe has just published her fourth novel, The Oldest Song in the World (4th Estate). She is the author of three other novels, including the acclaimed Leaning Towards Infinity.

Meg Vann

On May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to land.

Carrie Tiffany Carrie Tiffany is an agricultural journalist and former park ranger. She has written two novels: Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living and Mateship with Birds.

John Tranter John Tranter has published more than twenty collections of verse. His latest books are Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected and Starlight: 150 Poems, which have won a number of major prizes.

Kirsten Tranter

Meg Vann is Manager of the Australian Writer’s Marketplace published by Queensland Writers Centre.

Convenor of Sisters in Crime (Brisbane chapter).

Kate Veitch Having interviewed authors for Radio National and organised author tours for the National Book Council, Kate Veitch has herself become a novelist (Listen and Trust) and essay writer (Griffith REVIEW).

Kirsten Tranter is the author of two critically acclaimed novels: The Legacy (2010) which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and A Common Loss (2012).

Vikki Wakefield

Mark Tredinnick

Lisa Walker

Mark Tredinnick, winner of the 2011 Montreal Poetry Prize, is the author of Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, Australia’s Wild Weather, and eight other acclaimed works.

Lisa is the author of Liar Bird, possibly the first romantic comedy about feral pigs. Her next novel, about a timid erotic writer, comes out in December.

Vikki Wakefield writes contemporary YA fiction.

Her debut novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Award and was a CBC Notable Book.

Jessica Watson

Amanda Webster Formerly a doctor, Amanda Webster is now an MFA student at City University of Hong Kong. The Boy Who Loved Apples is her debut memoir.

Rohan Wilson Rohan Wilson is winner of the 2011 The Australian/ Vogel’s Literary Award for his novel The Roving Party.

Charlotte Wood Charlotte Wood’s latest book, Love & Hunger, is a collection of personal essays about cooking. She is also the author of four novels including Animal People (2011).

John Tranter

Susan Wyndham Susan Wyndham is literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and author of Life In His Hands: the true story of a neurosurgeon and a pianist.

Vikki Wakefield

Xu Xi Xu Xi is author of nine books, most recently Access: Thirteen Tales (2011). She is currently writer-in-residence, City University of Hong Kong.

Bernadette Young Bernadette Young presents a radio show on 91.7 ABC Coast FM, weekdays 3-6pm.

She loves music, good conversations and running long distances – sometimes she combines all three.

Jessica Watson

Arnold Zable Arnold Zable’s awardwinning novels and memoirs include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, Café Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, Sea of Many Returns, and most recently, Violin Lessons, a collection of stories.

Amanda Webster

Sue Woolfe

Nijole Pengelley and Animal Dreaming invite you to the launch of Nijole’s new book

‘Portals for Mortals for 2012 and Beyond’

Take a journey into the cosmic realm and find awe, balance and healing Where: Animal Dreaming - 109 Jonson St, Byron Bay When: Saturday 21st July 12pm - 4pm Pick up a personally signed copy of Nijole’s book and view her amazing, vibrant full sized artworks in the store. Posters and cards will be available.

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Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre

The Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre was set up almost 19 years ago and has been providing information, support and professional development opportunities to writers living in the Northern Rivers region ever since.

The area covered by the NRWC expands over approximately 40,000 square kilometres, from Tweed Heads in the north to Taree in the south and inland to Kyogle. We support hundreds of writers every year by organising courses, workshops, writer visits, In Conversations, book launches, seminars, and a host of other events throughout our area, as well as publishing a bi-monthly magazine, northerly.

We also work closely with schools, universities, and other arts organisations including ABC Open North Coast, Screenworks, Northern Rivers Performing Arts, and Arts Northern Rivers.

For the last twelve years the NRWC has hosted an annual Residential Mentorship program in May. As part of this program, four emerging writers are selected to spend five days refining their manuscripts under the guidance of acclaimed author Marele Day. Since the program began, several selected writers have gone on to experience publishing success, making this opportunity one of the most popular and respected in the country.

In 2012, we worked collaboratively with the NSW Department of Education to run the Out at SEA (Storytelling

for Emerging Artists) creative writing camp. This pilot project involved fifteen schools and was a tremendous success, with future camps sure to follow.

Sixteen years ago, the NRWC ran the first Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. Since then, the Festival has grown from strength to strength. It is now considered one of the most significant events on Australia’s literary calendar and one of the favourite festivals amongst authors, publishers, and attendees, an achievement of which we are extremely proud.

A very small group of dedicated individuals (including paid staff and volunteers) make up the team at the NRWC. Our existence is only made possible through program funding from Arts NSW, member fees, and generous donations. The staff and management committee of the NRWC would like thank everyone who supports our organisation and to extend a warm invitation to new members.

Our office is located at Level 1, 28 Jonson St, Byron Bay 2481 (above Witchery). For more information or to become a member please go to our website at www.nrwc.org.au or call us on 02 6685 5115.

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Festival Information Festival Site North Byron Events (formerly known as North Beach) is located at the end of Bayshore Drive in the Arts & Industrial Estate. If you are coming from Byron Bay town go approximately 2km along Ewingsdale Rd from the town centre towards the Pacific Highway then turn right at Bayshore Drive (there is a BP Ozigo on the corner of Bayshore Dr and Ewingsdale Rd). If you are coming from the Highway you will need to turn left at BP Ozigo petrol station after approximately 2km.

How to access North Byron Events Bus: There is a regular Xcede shuttle bus service from Byron Bay to the Festival site. The cost is $3 each way. The pick-up points for Xcede Festival bus will be: – Shirley St – Apartments Inn (Fletcher St) –B yron Bay Bus Terminal (Jonson St, outside the Byron Visitors’ Centre) We encourage visitors to use the shuttle service as parking is limited.

Car: The Festival site is an 8 minute drive from the centre of Byron Bay. Car parking on site is limited. If driving we recommend arriving 45 minutes before Festival entry. There will be a $5 daily charge for parking on site.

Accommodation Our official booking agent is Byron Bay Accom. Go to www.byronbayaccom.net or call 02 6680 8666 for a comprehensive listing of accommodation in and around Byron Bay.

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